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Title: Paris and its story, by T. Okey; illustrated by Katherine Kimball & O. F. M. Ward
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Okey, Thomas, 1852-1935
Subjects: Art
Publisher: London : J. M. Dent & co. New York, The Macmillan co.
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yed Me ? My servant Martin, thoughyet unbaptised, hath done this. After this vision Martinreceived baptism and remained steadfast in the faith. Atlength, desiring to devote himself wholly to Christ, hebegged permission to leave the army. The Emperor Julian,who deemed the Christian faith fit only to form souls ofslaves, reproached him for his cowardice, for he was yet inthe prime of life, being forty years of age. * Put me,exclaimed Martin, naked and without defence in theforefront of the battle, and armed with the Cross alone Iwill not fear to face the enemy. Early on the followingmorning the barbarians submitted to the emperor withoutstriking a blow, and thus was victory vouchsafed to Martinsfaith and courage, and he was permitted to leave the army.The illiterate and dauntless soldier became the fiery apostleof the faith, a vigorous iconoclast, throwing down the imagesof the false gods, breaking their altars in pieces and burningtheir temples. Of the Roman gods, Mercury, he said, was
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Roman Baths in Muske he Ci.uny. GALLO-ROMAN PARIS 9 most difficult to ban, but Jove was merely stupid andbrutish, and gave him least trouble. Martin was a demo-cratic saint, of ardent charity and austere devotion. Laterin life he founded the monastery of Marmoutier, which grewto be one of the richest in France. His rule was severe ;when his monks murmured at the hard fare he badethem remember that cooked herbs and barley bread was thefood of the hermits of Africa. That may be, answeredthey, but we cannot live like the angels. On the 16th of March 1711, some workmen, digging atomb for the archbishop of Paris in the choir of NotreDame, came upon the walls, six feet below the pavement, ofthe original Christian basilica over which the moderncathedral is built. In the fabric of these walls the earlybuilders had incorporated the remains of the still earliertemple of Jupiter, which had been destroyed to give place tothe Christian church, and among the debris were found thefragments of an alt

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